Beateb in hide-hawdiiiitct cyi



JAMES n. INNIs,

OF EASTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

BEATER IN HIDE-HANDLING CYLINDERS.

'Specification of Letters Patent No. 7,192, dated March 19, 1850.

To all whom it may concern Be it known` that I, JAMES R. INNIs, of Easton, in the county of Northampton and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Handlers for Tanning Hides which I Term My Improved Rotary and Reciprocating Handler and I hereby declare that thefollowing is a full and exact description thereof.

In the accompanying drawings which form a part of this specification Figure l is a perspective view of the machine which is placed in an ordinary vat. A vat which is usually about siX feet long, four feet wide and iive feet deep and sunk nearly the wholel depth in the earth. B'wheel with buckets placed diagonally across the face from right `to left and left to right. C pulley on wheel shaft. Fig. Zend elevation A vat. B wheel, O pulley, I) rollers running across the vat, parallel to the shaft of wheel B these rollers should be sufficiently far apart to allow the liquor to vflow freely from the chamber under. the rollers to the main portion of the vat above the rollers, in which the hides are placed. The object of these rollers is to allow the liquor to pass up freely through the spaces, which will prevent the hides from adhering tothe bottom of the vat, and also the hides will move more freely than they would on a plain surface or where the liquor could not have free access to the under side of the hides, this object may be partly accomplished by using slats or grates in the place of the rollers.

Having described the construction of im proved handler, I will proceed to describe its operation. The hides are taken from a lime vat or sweat pit (in which they are first put to'remove the hair) and placed in the Vat under the wheel and above the rollers, the hides do not passfover the wheel but float about in the vat. By turning the wheel B the buckets being arranged as above described. It will give a reciprocating motion to the liquor fro-m right to left and left to right and it will also cause a current of liquor to pass down at the tail end of the vat and rise up through the spaces between the rollers thereby keeping a current of liquor flowing in different directions, which will cause the hides to spread out and allow the liquorV free access to the surface and pores ofthe hides. The buckets being placed diagonally across the surface of the wheel it will require much less power to turn the wheel; there will be less liability of the bands being thrown off the pulley and the WM. H. HUTTER, PETER BELLIs.

Letters Fetent No. '7, 192

Disclaimer.

To the Commissioner of Patentm. The petition of JAMES R. INNIs, of Easton, in the State of Pennsylvania, respectfully represents that on his petition made and entered in the PntentOHce Letters Patent were issued to him for 'certain Improvements in Tanning Hides,- which he termed his Rotary Reciprocating Handler, which Letters Patent hear 'date the nineteenth dey of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty; that since-the issue orfsaid Letters Patent he has reason to believe that lthrough inedvertence and mistake the claims mede in the specification are too broad and there-- fore cover more than he isentitled tofa.s

first inventor.

Your petitioner therefore hereby enters his disclaimer to; that part of the claim in the aforennmed 'specification whichy is in-the following' words, to wit: Second, the rolleis or slats in combination with the cham.- berffwhiehdisclnimer is-to operate to the i extent of the interest in said VLet-ters Pat-ent vested in. your petitioner, he having paid ten dollars into the Treasury of' the United States agreeably to the act ofv Congress in that case made and provided.

ADated at 'the city of, New `Yorlt on th;

ninth Vde of November, in the year onethou- `send veig t hundred andv fifty. i

' i Witnesses:

s JAMES R. IN-Nis.; 

